whispered and let go of him, then turned around and went back to Boris. The stallion ran next to her with dignity, even regally, with his head up and a springy gait. One of the men, who was either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid, tried to grab him by the holster. Of course the proud stallion does not tolerate this and snaps at the guard.She stopped in front of Boris, the horse behind her, eying Boris angrily and with her ears flat back.
"Where should he go?"
Boris pointed to an elongated building, which was reminiscent of a stable: "Unfortunately I still have business to do, you can bring him to the stable by yourself!", With these words he disappeared. Gary and Justin wanted to go ahead and took Rio with them.
"I'll see you later!" Luna called after them and then led the stallion into the stable. There was a dim light through the small windows and that made the inside of the stable look rather creepy. There were a total of 10 boxes, 5 on the right and 5 on the left. Luna led him into the first box on the left, as the one on the right was already occupied. The stallion looked suspiciously at his new home, but then saw a few carrots lying in the manger and began to eat.Luna noticed that it was very dirty and looked for a cleaning box. But the other horses had piqued her interest. The first two boxes were from two Lipizzaners, the next two from a brown and a dark chestnut-colored Trakehner and in the last one stood a fiery red Arab mare who acted just as crazy as her horse outside. As if stung by a tarantula, she got up and banged on the wooden door, which would soon give way.
"Quiet my girl! Quiet!", She spoke gently to the nervous animal. The mare rolled her eyes, but they weren't white, like her stallion's, but red, "Take it easy! What's the matter with you?"
Luna went to the stable door and wanted to open it, but someone grabbed her shoulders roughly.
"I wouldn't go in there if I were you! The animal has a total quirk!" Said a cold voice. Luna turned around and looked into two beautiful ice blue eyes."Hey, we met in the toilet, do you remember? It's Luna!"
"Yes, I remember. Boris sent me to check on you. Are you okay?"
Luna nodded and gave him a friendly smile. A twitch ran through his body and he quickly took his hand off her shoulder. She noticed that yesterday's other boy was standing with him too. She turned her attention back to the mare, who was still raging wildly in her box. Now she opened the stable door and entered.
"Are you nuts ?! Come out of there now!" The redhead yelled at her, but she didn't hear that.
"It's fine, my girl. Come on, calm down!", She carefully stretched out her arm and touched the mare's neck, which was wet with sweat. The overexcited animal winced again briefly, but then let himself be petted.
"Well look. I'm not hurting you! Come on, let's be friends, okay?", Luna took a piece of carrot out of her trouser pocket and gave it to the mare, then she left the box again."What did you think? Just marching into it like that !! What could have happened to you ?!" he yelled at her again.
"What's your name?" She asked without answering his questions.
"Tala and this is Ian.", He pointed to the little one who was leaning against a wall. A short time later a tall, blond boy came in wearing a saddle, saddlecloth, and bridle. He hung this over a bench, briefly exchanged a few words with Tala, which Luna did not understand, and then went back out with Ian.
"Who was that? "
"Spencer. He brought your saddlery.", Tala answered her shortly.
Luna nodded thanks and looked at the mare again, who stood relaxed in the box and looked friendly over at Luna.
"What's your name? "
"I don't know, I don't think she has any. The guards just call her a witch or a bitch!"
"But that's mean, huh my sweetie?", She went to the box door and stroked the mare between the ears, "But you're a real angel!"
Satisfied, the mare snorted and waned briefly. Luna had to laugh. Then she turned back to Tala. He looked at her with friendly eyes. She asked where the cleaning supplies were and he showed her everything else she needed. Now she found him really sympathetic. Unfortunately he had to leave after a short time and she was alone. Immediately she began to clean the black stallion, which he visibly enjoyed, relaxed he put his ears back and closed his dark eyes, if you looked him very closely, you could see a blue border. When she was finished, she quickly greased the saddlery, then sat down with him in the box and talked, she talked to him for hours and when she left it was already dark. The lanterns were already going on in the streets, shops were closed and there was rush hour traffic on the streets. The first stars could already be seen in the sky and the moon emerged in a narrow crescent.It was getting cooler and the wind was blowing through the branches of the bare trees. The hotel was surrounded by small parks and above the entrance there was a large picture made of neon bars, which was supposed to represent a sun. A bit frozen she walked through the lobby and to the elevator and waited impatiently, but the stupid elevator didn't come. Cursing, she went up the stairs. Finally arrived on the 6th floor she knocked on the door of the room. Ray opened it and Rio came right away, jumped up on her and licked her face. She was surprised to see that the White Tigers, her mom, and the AllStarz were sitting in the room.
Luna immediately started bubbling without a point or a comma, how great it was that he was here. Her mother tried to slow her down a few times so she could breathe, but it didn't really work.
"Where is Justin?" Max interrupted.
"Justin? He already left with Gary before !?", she looked questioningly at Gary who looked bored out of the window."But he left ten minutes ago to get you! Maybe you ran past each other?"
"Nonsense! Maybe he just took a different route and will be right back ?! Is Kai back already?"
"No. We were in the abbey earlier, but were sent away again, we were told that he caught a cold.", Ray answered her, but was not convinced of his own words. Tyson then told her the full story, not leaving out a single detail. Luna said that she had seen Tala and Ian too, told about the mare and her mom wasn't exactly thrilled about it.
"Actually, you should already know that she has a heart for crazy critters!" Admitted Gary with a nasty grin.
Luna gave him venomous looks and then continued talking to her mother. Slowly she began to worry about her boyfriend, two hours had already passed and she wanted to go looking for him.Her mother stopped her and asked her to wait a little longer, he would definitely come soon. Rio got hungry and Luna went to the kitchen to feed him. During that time there was another knock, this time her mother went to the door.
"Luna! Will you come please?"
She jumped up from her chair and walked to the door, hoping to see Justin standing there. But there was a policeman standing there with a sad face. Confused, she looked at him and waited for the policeman to say something.
"Are you Luna?" He asked first.
She nodded silently. The other teams came curiously.
The policeman cleared his throat: "There was an accident!", He said slowly, "Your friend, Justin, was involved in it. He is now in the hospital and is probably being operated on now, the doctors say it is not going well with him. He was hit by a truck, it is sheer luck that he is still alive! I was sent to inform you. ", the policeman paused to let the events affect her.Tears ran down her eyes and her whole body was shaking.No !! That can not be true!! Then the policeman spoke again: "Shall I drive you to the hospital?"
She looked at her mother and then just nodded. Gary and Cliff wanted to pack a few things for him and come back later. Max put his hand on his sister's shoulder: "It'll be fine!", He said confidently, "We'll come to you as soon as possible, mom ordered a bus for all of us by phone!"
The policeman took her arm in a friendly manner and led her down the stairs, through the lobby, where some guests looked astonished, and brought her to the police car. She sat down next to the policeman and put her head against the window pane.
"Is the boy your friend?" Asked the policeman after a while.
"Yeah," that was the only thing she got out.
"I also lost my best friend in an accident."said the policeman sadly.
"Where is the hospital? "
"Do you know the abbey?"
She nodded briefly.
"Next to it is a large park with small private gardens, if you go through there it is not far, but we have to drive around the outside, we can be there in about half an hour."
"That long?"
The policeman told her some stories from his years of service, but she didn't care, her thoughts were with him and she prayed that he would get well again soon. Suddenly the policeman hit the steering wheel with both hands.
"Damn it! A traffic jam, we can't get through and I can't turn around either! I'm sorry, we have to wait!"
"Where are we? "
"About 200m from the abbey, why?"
She unbuckled, "Thanks, I can handle myself now!", She quickly jumped out of the car and ran. The 200m seemed infinitely long to her, but then luckily she saw the walls of the abbey and turned into the entrance.It was very bright and the courtyard was lit by large spotlights. She kept running to the barn, damn it !! Completed! She kicked the door furiously. From inside came the indignant creaking of the horses, which were not exactly enthusiastic about this nocturnal disturbance.
"What are you doing here?" She heard a voice behind her.
Startled, she turned around and again she looked into those beautiful ice-blue eyes.
"Tala! Open the door quickly !!", she said and tears ran down her face.
-Tala-
What should I do now? Now there is this girl in front of me, crying and asking me to open the door! Why should I? Your horse is in there but that's no reason to come so late. And why is she